Meanwhile, Survival mode requires a lot more planning and work, as you'll have to harvest resources from asteroids, craft items, maintain energy levels, and avoid death, lest you want to lose your inventory. Creative mode waives resource and inventory restrictions and lets you go crazy with building and design. Generating a world full of blazing meteors is a fun twist as well, plus you can hop into others' public or private games for co-op creation or other shenanigans.Īs of now, Space Engineers includes a couple of ways to experience the action. Ships and structures tear apart dynamically with each collision or rocket launcher hit, and you can blast holes in space stations large enough to weave tiny ships through. But plenty of antagonistic fun is here to be had, too-I had a blast pairing up with an online pal, outfitting our ships with warheads, and then bashing them together and watching the explosive results. Granted, that's really the bulk of the game experience right now: building ships and structures, and then toying around with them.

While the tools used are simple, your ships and stations can be considerably tweaked in both look and purpose.

It takes a fair bit more time, but you can also build large ships that you can walk around in, as well as outfit them with things like missile turrets, refineries, and medical rooms-plus you can design a space station with many of the same accouterments.

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